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Tuesday, 11 February 2014

UAF's Martin Smith on Exotic Muslims and the EDL Threat

First posted: 7th January, 2011

The
UAF/SWP's Smith has talked about the ‘terrifying rise in anti-Muslim
racism since 9/11’. Apart from the fact that there has been no
‘terrifying’ rise in anti-Muslim attacks, what about the real rise in
anti-Semitic attacks in Britain and Europe? You won’t hear much about
that from Martin Smith and his friends because many of them are
anti-Semites. Oh, no, they are ‘anti-Zionists’. Their monomania and
neurotic obsession with Israel has nothing whatsoever to do with the one
thousand five hundred years of European anti-Semitism. It is a complete
coincidence that Trots go to bed at night thinking about Israeli
‘crimes’ and the sad, sad Palestinians. They don’t worry that much about
the plight of the southern Sudanese, black Christians or animists, or
the Kurds. No. It the behaviour of the Jews in Israel that really gets
to them. After all, Israel is the ‘front line of America’.

Anyway.
‘Anti-Muslim racism’? What does that mean? That’s like, ‘anti-Tory
homophobia’. It doesn’t even make sense. After all, people like Smith
himself keep on telling us that Muslims don’t constitute a single race.
That doesn’t matter to a Trot. As long as the phrase ‘anti-Muslim
racism’ helps him recruit a few young naïve Muslims and a few naïve
middle class students. He doesn’t really care how he recruits them. If
lies, distortions, alliances with reactionaries (Muslims), etc. work,
they he’ll do it. He will do anything to further the Revolution and
increase militancy amongst young Muslims and non-Muslim students.
Anything.

Smith/SWP cleverly tells us about the ‘electoral and a street fighting wing’ of fascist organisations. Does that include red
fascist organisations like the SWP and UAF? They certainly have a
‘street fighting wing’ and a nice wing (the good cops) which dupes
members of the leading parties into joining the UAF.

The SWP
can’t be electoral because it is against parliamentary democracy.
However, that didn’t stop Smith from accusing the BNP of not believing
in democracy and the vote. But that’s for far- right reasons, which are
bad, not far-left reasons, which are good. Indeed Martin Smith himself
is a street fighter. He is called ‘Martin “runs with Muslims” Smith’.
There are photos of him running with Muslims, attacking two Birmingham
shoppers, teasing a police dog, and haranguing a Birmingham shop keeper.
He was also arrested for street fighting outside the BBC. In addition,
he was reported to West Midland Police for attacking shoppers in
Birmingham. So Smith is in favour of far-left street fighting, but
against far-right street fighting. This is something everyone knows
already.One of Smith's heros is the ‘socialist’ Antonia Gramsci. Gramsci’s main thesis was simple:We knew that the revolution would not happen, at least not in the immediate future. So what to do?

Gramsci
suggested taking over, infiltrating and being entryists in important
institutions, from the universities and colleges, to the media and even
the church and police. The tactic was, basically, to take over these
institutions and groups and make them ideologically communist or
Trotskyist in nature. It has worked in the UK. The far left has ‘won the
culture war, but lost the economic war’. But instead of out-and-out
Trotskyism, which the British would never swallow, what we have instead
is the Politically Correct Cultural Revolution. This is a nicer form of
far leftism.

Martin Smith is the National Secretary of the
Socialist Workers Party. He has heeded Gramsci’s words and he and the
SWP have formed UAF. Smith also runs the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR)
show. He is certainly doing his bit for Gramsci and the Revolution.
Martin ‘runs with Muslims’ Smith has even created his own version of
Mussolini’s squadre d’azione. You can see him in action in a
few photos and videos. I think his boot boys are called ‘Red and Green
Action’. The ‘red’ stands for ‘red fascism’ (Trotskyism) and the ‘green’
stands for ‘Islamofascism’. I bet Smith’s red ‘sword’ is nine inches
long when folded in half!

Smith can also indulge in some classic
Trotskyite scare-mongering. In one breath he tells us that ‘the BNP
gained 17 percent’ of the vote in Barking in 2005. That’s only 17% in
one constituency. From this meagre evidence he then tells us in the next
breath that ‘the Nazis are making serious breakthroughs at the ballot
box’. Apart from 17% not really being a ‘breakthrough’, this vote
involved a lot of protest votes from the electorate. And why is that?
Because people like Smith and the middle-class professionals who run the
UAF/SWP Alliance, and the universities and much of the media, gave up
on the white working class years ago. Smith and his mates now ‘run with
Muslims’. They embrace other kinds of diversity – any kind of diversity, as long as it is not the white working class.

For
example, Martin writes that EDL members ‘talked about the fear of
losing their jobs or businesses’. He doesn’t show any compassion for
their plight or even an analysis of why things are the way they are. The
only thing that he concludes from this is that such people become
attracted to ‘typical… fascist/ultra right wing nationalist movements’.
This just shows us why some people are doing precisely that, Mr Smith.
Because you don’t give a shit about anyone except middle class students
and Muslims. That is, anyone who will be fodder for the Trot Revolution,
which the working class refuse to be. And that’s why the SWP gave up on
the working class. It just wasn’t into the Revolution. Never mind.
Let’s try the Muslims and Islamists instead.

The Labour Party, on the whole, isn't a Marxist or a communist party. However, there are very many cross-currents and interactions between the Labour Party and the Trotskyist/communist Left, mainly on the periphery but also deeper within.

As for the Fabian Society, it isn't a “revolutionary" (as in violent revolution) organisation but it is still, nonetheless, uniquely dangerous and elitist. Its approach to "radically changing society" is very similar to that taken by the followers of the Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci.